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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Late Modernity"”.
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Reasonable Creates: British Equestrianism and Epistemological Responsibility in Late Modernity
… reform and invention. I describe how this relates to a broader neoliberal context in which the idea of 'real connection' is highly valued and nostalgically missed. Through this ethnography, I aim to bring the anthropology of ethics and the 'animal turn' in anthropology into productive …
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Crime politics and late modernity : an exploration of community, identity and morality
… sociological, research about both community and late-modernity to argue that the moral community is at odds with contemporary social conditions.Drawing on theoretical perspectives about late-modernity, this critique is extended to debunk the notion that criminality can be understood in terms of …
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From Alienation to Self-Realization: Pathologies of Late Modernity, Work, and the Successful Life
The “promise of modernity”—the capacity of individuals to lead successful lives comes under severe strain in late modernity. Adopting a formal “appropriative” model of alienated labour which is responsive to individuals’ own conceptions of the good, desires, goals, ground projects, and needs, I …
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The making of Taiwanese young men: (De) traditionalization, consumption and blogging in late modernity
… gendered experiences. It draws upon theories of late modernity, cultural studies, and feminist research. A primary aim is to explore the dialectical interplay between the existing gender configuration and how it is culturally lived out. This thesis argues that through processes of …
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Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Hazards, Environmental and Health Risks as the Latent Products of Late Modernity
… and environmental risks associated with CAFOs in late modernity. The results do not indicate that neighboring residents of CAFOs in Central Mississippi are more likely to have ill health, a negative quality of life, or environmental degradation, overall.</p>
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A Case-study of Alcohol Consumption and of the Irish Public House in late Modernity. Social processes that manifest themselves as cultural, economic and political constraints.
Social drinking in Ireland is acknowledged as a ‘traditional and a ‘cultural’ pursuit. The social world of the drinker however, is constructed in a complex way that extends beyond the cultural sphere. Movement of people, commodities and ideas (global processes) are central to contemporary …
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Building the Good Life: Architecture and Politics
… between architecture and democratic politics in late-modernity. It identifies the refusal of architects to consider the political dimensions of their work following the failures of 20th century High Modernism and the scant attention that the intersection between architecture and politics has …
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A postmodern analysis o f the Shopping Experience and the Consumer Society.
… consumerism act as the new stimulant/religion of late modernity, in its role as an agent in the reflexive construction of self-identity - is consumption the foundation from which to build an identity and express yourself to others? *Is the commodity the new postmodern God? Is the label/sign the …
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Henry Miller and The Philosophy of The Inhuman Artist
… repudiating some of the most potent elements of late modernity such as history, modern technology and an aesthetisized view of art, Miller paves the way for overcoming Western metaphysics. Finally I show that, philosophically, this aim is governed by Miller's idiosyncratic concept of art, in …
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“Foids have no soul, they are not human.” A sociological examination of the language used by an online male supremacy group.
… criminality, as described in The Vertigo of Late Modernity, was used to trace the path from globalization to liquid modernity to othering and, finally, to violence. Young’s work is key to understanding how an outgroup, in this case women, evolves from “us and them” to “us versus them” and …
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A critical analysis of the themes of disability, welfare and community in the Thai documentary series Kon Kon Kon
… and struggles are a main feature of media in late modernity. Late modernity is a period when human beings gain a central role and individuals are given autonomy to construct identities when those issued by traditional meta-structures such as religion, nation or gender are competing and none …
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Theorising evidence based policing: a discourse analysis
… heritage with other socio-political projects of late modernity, particularly managerialism and neoliberalism.
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Splitting hairs : a sociological approach to educational knowledge
… in the informational or knowledge society of late modernity, all symbolic forms are necessarily isomorphic, or whether they will correspond with the new form of the division of labour and will therefore differ in form and social distribution. The symbolic forms examined here are those …
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Disconsolate Subjects: Figures of Radical Alterity in the Twentieth Century Novel, From Modernism to Postcolonialism
… and Kazuo Ishiguro - whose fiction is populated by figures of disconsolation: characters who resist, evade, or - in the case of Ishiguro's protagonists - assiduously attempt to conform to the constitutive social formations and disciplinary technologies of late modernity, among them, …
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A Call To Arms: The Militarization of Natural Disasters in the United States
… One of the key theories used as explanation is late modernity, which focuses on risk aversion and maintaining security. By focusing on policing the streets after a natural disaster, reporting on looting and crime, and keeping citizens in a controlled environment, our expectations after a natural …
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Citizens Excepted: Limits of Belonging and Statelessness in The United States
… the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion under late modernity.</p>
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Food scares and news media: a case study approach to science and risk in the news
… of which the latter, in Beck's analysis of 'late modernity' as derived in part from Habermas, represents the emergence of a 'reflexivity' which has the potential to challenge societal conceptions of science and knowledge.
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Supermax Confinement: A Descriptive and Theoretical Inquiry
… the increased use of administrative, isolated segregation. This proliferation is embedded within a broader shift in society towards more punitive measures of disciplining those people convicted of criminal offenses. The primary purpose of this thesis is to examine the proliferation of …
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Engaging with comedy as social conscience in Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld”
… in relation to models of masculinity in late modernity. Vimes was admired by all demographic groups, often as an aspirational figure, with 64% nominating him as a favourite. Transtextual relationships with the gothic articulate a female voice within the Discworld and shows how fans relate …
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